Look at the Book

A sinner is justified by faith alone or he is not justified at all.

Muhammad will not save you. Buddha will not save you. Mary will not save you. The Pope will not save you. Parents, president, and yoga pose will not save you. Christ alone!

God’s grace alone makes the blind see, the lame walk, the dead live, and the sinner saved.

In an age of corruption and false teaching, the Protestant Reformers returned to the Scriptures.

Envy of other Christians makes us suspicious of their gifts and ungrateful for our own. But because of Christ, we need not live or minister from rivalry.

What will make the timid speak, the cowardly stand, and the weak strong? Belief in their God.

Prosperity preachers would rob us of the opportunity to show the world that Christ is truly worth suffering and dying for.

Bullets can stop pastors. Shackles can stop missionaries. But nothing can stop the gospel.

Marriage is a parable of the gospel, telling of Christ’s unrelenting love for his bride.

You will never grow in holiness until you see that the ultimate essence of evil is the refusal to be happy in God.

Bible study without meditation is chewing without swallowing. When we recover the lost art, we will experience more joy in God and his word.

People say that God has a wonderful plan for their lives, often meaning that God will help them achieve their dreams. But God’s plans are far superior to our own.

Being blameless for the day of Christ doesn’t mean that we lived perfectly. It means that we lived a life hating our sin, seeking holiness, and trusting in Christ.

Our neighborhoods need men and women who delight in beauty not pornography, excellence not crudity, Christ and not the world.

If Jesus tells us to go and pray to our heavenly Father in secret, should I ever tell others that I am praying for them?

When God saves someone, he not only gives them a new love for himself, but a new love for his people.

Slavery is a haunting skeleton in the closet of many nations of the world. But doesn’t the Bible say there will be slaves in heaven?

God does not save us and send us to the couch. God calls his people to work out their salvation with fear and trembling and sends them out into a lost world.

Man’s will changes God’s plans like a gentle breeze changes the mountain.

God didn’t get his people part way out of Egypt or halfway through the Red Sea. Our God completes what he begins.

We cannot fight sin with our hands tied in condemnation. Only when Christ has set us free can we truly conquer our sin.

Bombs explode. Wars rage. Adultery devastates. With so much wickedness in the world, can we really say that God rules over everything?

Grace has brought us safe thus far, and grace will bring us home.

A day is drawing near that will swallow up all other days. Great days, bad days, slow days, fast days all lead unfailingly to judgment day.

Christians are robbed of help and God is robbed of praise when we are too proud to ask others for prayer.

Anyone who tells us that following Jesus is easy doesn’t know what it means to follow him. The way is hard, but the path leads to life.

Digging for treasure is harder than raking leaves. But those who aren’t afraid of callouses can find spiritual diamonds in God’s word.

Many respect Jesus as a good moral teacher like Gandhi or Socrates. But the Jesus of the Bible will not allow you to make that claim.

Few relationships in this life compare with gospel friendships. Better to have one Christ-centered companion than one million followers on social media.

We may outgrow childhood clothes and car seats, but as children of God, we never outgrow our need for grace and peace.

Kingdoms need a king. Children need parents. Sheep need shepherds. The Church needs servant leaders that point them to their King, Father, and Shepherd.

Sainthood is not a trophy for the spiritually elite to win. It’s a free gift that every child of God receives.

Slavery has horrible connotations in our day — and for good reason. But servitude to God gives life instead of taking it away.

The beggar and the prince, the African and the Asian, the wise man and the simpleton can all be saved by trusting in Jesus Christ.

If you believe that the greatest thing that God has done for you is provide food for your table and health for your family, you are not a Christian.

It would be better to be born at the base of an erupting volcano than to be born spiritually dead.

Your biggest problem is not your old car, your mundane job, or your broken family. Your biggest problem is your sin.

Everyone wants a happily-ever-after, but few people are willing to give up sin and autonomy to get it.

We can’t live meaningful lives if we don’t know why we were created. If we think God merely made us to be wealthy, healthy, and happy, we don’t know why he made us.

If no one in your life knows you are a Christian, you probably aren’t one. Heaven is only for those who were unashamed of their Savior on earth.

Satan loves to remind us of all that we are missing out on if we follow Christ — except for hell.

The great irony: those who love their lives will lose it forever, while those who lose their lives will gain it. Death with Jesus offers more life than any luxury in this world.

Following Jesus is not like following someone on Instagram. It doesn’t involve making a click; it involves taking up a cross.

The book of Proverbs is not a collection of fortune-cookie like wisdom. It’s a book available only through the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Wisdom is not something for the academic elite. It’s necessary for everyone who desires to follow God and live a joy-filled life.

Loving money over God is soul-suicide. Those who love money over God will be eternally poor, but those who love God over money will own the universe.

Combine all the authority that kings, presidents, and dictators have had throughout history, and it pales in comparison to Christians ruling with Christ in the world to come.

Mosquitos kill millions, massive floods destroy cities, earthquakes destroy countries. With the chaos of creation harming us, do humans really have dominion?

God conquers his foes by weak babies and rules the world with weak men. He is more likely to use your weaknesses for his glory than your strengths.

God conquers his foes with babies and rules his world through the frailty of man, all to demonstrate the splendors of his majesty.